What was that for?” and Cait said “Nothing. I just felt like it” and I was watching them from the doorway and when Cait came back to me I looked...at her and Cait whispered “What?” and we went into the kitchen and I whispered “Seriously?” and Cait said “What??” and I whispered “Oh, come on. You've seen me suck his cock half a dozen times and now you're worried about him cheating on your mom?” and she said “That's different” and I said “It's really not” and Cait said “Yeah it is”.“What about your. ‘Mehret, Ney Mehret!’ the old woman shouted, her voice forceful, decisive, but loving. ‘Mehret!!’ The door remained closed. The woman shouted more sentences, and finally, the door opened once more. First Tsegey came in, beaming happily, followed by the older girl, who I assumed to be Mehret, turning her head, keeping her hands in front of her mouth. She might have been seventeen, maybe eighteen years old, looking… The dark, dirty and torn dress didn’t hide, but emphasized the thin, long,. “That is right, isn't it?” Ashley looked at Brad as she answered. “Uh, pretty much, I guess.” “Well, lets get going then,” Brad urged, “We haven't got all day.” “And I'll drive so I don't have to leave my truck on the street,” Jarrad offered. “So I get to straddle the gearshift again,” Ashley acknowledged. “And you better keep your hand on the shifter,” she added, slapping Jarrad playfully. She looked at Brad to make sure he wasn't upset over the way she was flirting. *** At the mall they. Her family owned a small acreage in the mountains west of Colorado Springs that had been in the family for five generations. Rumor had it that the first owner found gold "somewhar in them thar hills" but that was never proven. He and his partner filed on two adjacent sections of land as homesteaders and proved up on it so it was privately owned. As far as Janice knew he never mined on the land. However, until he died he would disappear for several days at a time and show up with freshly mined.